Israel Daily News Stream 03/07/2012

•Maan News introduces us to one unusual student. Bushra Khalilieh is a 25-year old Israeli-Arab woman speaking up for Israel on South African campuses. During Israel Apartheid Week.

Khalilieh, a masters student at Tel Aviv University, stressed that she represents herself and not the position of the Israeli government.

“I represent myself as a Muslim Arab who lives in Israel as a liberal and free girl unlike other Arab girls who live in Arab countries and do not have the human rights I have like freedom of expression and dignity.”

This year’s flytilla, as the Israeli media called the event in allusion to Gaza-bound sea flotillas which similarly aimed to castigate Israel for its policies, is scheduled for Sunday, April 15. The date is significant because the Passover holiday ends in Israel on the night of Friday, April 13, but because of Shabbat, observant Jewish tourists will not able to fly out of Israel before the day of the planned flytilla. It is unclear whether organizers chose that date intentionally, but increased police presence and potential scuffles might cause additional difficulties and embarrassments for an for already overstrained airport.

Arab Spring Winter

•YNet reports that this video of a “Syrian Mohammed Dura” has shocked the Arab world. A Saudi news anchor cried while reading the report.

. . . the Syrian death toll has moved from 2,000 to over 7,000 – about five times more than the Palestinian casualties during Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in late 2008 and early 2009.

Bekdil’s point?

Mr. Erdogan is siding with the Syrians oppressed by the al-Assad regime. Perhaps he should lend an ear to one of the victims, a one-legged revolutionary singer undergoing medical treatment in safe Turkish territory. Time magazine quotes the man, one of the 300 who have fled to Turkey in the most recent wave of refugees, as saying: “We’d rather accept Israel than Bashar [. . .] The Israelis didn’t do to the Palestinians what Bashar has done to Syria.”

Who, really, knows better how to kill?

• Shocking footage from a Syrian military hospital in Homs indicates medics are torturing patients. Channel 4 obtained the video it says was covertly filmed by a worker. It’s graphic.

It is the first time such video evidence has emerged. Medical and human rights experts consider the intentional infliction of pain by doctors within the confines of a hospital to be the ultimate desecration of human rights and “a gross breach of medical ethics”.

•Dr. Eli Avraham of Haifa University’s offering a new course in media monitoring and web activism. The JPost explains:

Entitled “Ambassadors Online,” the spring semester class – the first of its kind – will explore international news coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and attempt to rectify alleged media bias.

Though it does not offer university credit, the course will teach students about the main issues behind Israel’s delegitimization . . .

The syllabus for “Ambassadors Online” will concentrate on identifying what constitutes hostile or non-objective reporting.

Afterward, students will be encouraged to contact foreign media outlets to present an Israeli perspective and reframe the public narrative.

Two senior journalists at News International have apparently attempted to commit suicide as pressure mounts inside the Murdoch media empire . . .

The tragic developments happened after News Corp’s Management and Standards Commitee, a branch of the empire that reports directly to independent board directors in New York, passed evidence to Scotland Yard . . .

The MSC’s co-operation with the police has triggered a civil war inside the Murdoch empire. Bosses at News International, its UK-newspaper subsidiary, are furious that the committee, headed by Lord Grabiner QC, has “sold journalists down the river”.

If ABC is correct that even a non-nuclear war in the Gulf could blow gas and oil prices through the roof and any number of vehicle bombs in US cities then the resulting economic downturn will do nobody any good starting with the US Jewish community – even if it makes an opportunity to play nasty games with the American Moslems as well.

Israel indeed has a right to protect its interests but it would be impolitic to re-open the conflict in a manner for which it can be easily blamed. It is vital that if the Iran -Israel conflict goes “hot” and “open” that for starters Israel is playing, “Poland” and not “Germany.”

Remember that the Chinese in the Korean War were the first to fight a war with a nuclear armed opponent which did not – nor since – used its N-capacity. The N-question could easily turn into the most immense bluff as with the Cold War.

I HEAR VARIOUS REACTONS FROM ISRAEL ESPECIALLY FROM MOSSAD PEOPLE.
their remarks are different from P.M. Netanyahu’s. I would say the Mossad knows as much as him. Bibi is in for reelection and it is good to get people fired up.
Our President has many different things on his plate, many more than BiBi.
I Do NOT trust Iran and their Ayotollas nor the Supreme Fuehrer, Iran was supplied by the Russians and Chinese with the very latest weapons and techknowledgy. Unless we tunnel our ways to the nuclear sites and blow them up I doubt very much that air strikes would be successfull even with stealth planes. Large missiles launched a la V-2 the Germans launched at the end of the war, they might be right with smart guidance. They would “arrive” unanounced.
I have my doubts that Iran would bomb Jerusalem and destroy the Temple Mount with their Mosque which is the 3rd most important in their religion.

Australia is a Christian country and was set up on Christian principals in1788. As Australians we are called lucky people in The Lucky Country. We are able to deal with terrorists by locking them up, away from our society. Our intake of refugees last year was 185.000, many were ‘boat people’. They come from Sri Lanka, Indonesia and other eastern countries. Maybe some of these could be terrorists? As Christians we have a long term relationship with Israel as it was where Jesus Christ lived his life and he became the most important person in our religion. However, putting politics aside, should Israel’s secueity be threatened by an act of war or in any other way (? nucler weapons development in a nearby country) the question for Israel would not be how; but when to act.

The TORAH says:
121:1-8 “I will lift up mine eyes into the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. HE will not suffer thy foot to be moved: HE that thee will not slumber. Behold, HE that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve thee from evil; HE shall preserve thy soul. The LORD shall thy going out and thy coming in FTP this time forth, and even for EVERMORE. ”

Israel, take heed to what THE LORD says and promises, do not trust man or. what they say to you. Their saying is not what you should trust.

Time to warn the one state solution fans that it will not be a solution but another Syria, or Ulster or Palestine without the much maligned British Army to hold the ring, or Malaysia where the British could back the Moslem Malay nationalists to freeze out the Communist terrorists who had made the mistake of letting themselves appear to be a Chinese ethnic party.

Just remember the British end in Raj India, Nigeria and Palestine.

In India all conceded partition which the Indians were Libeeral enough to not oppose, and the casualties were the minorities who had to swap residence but essentially pro rata to the total populations there was not a serious war and things had calmed down within months.

Comparably in Nigeria a united country was handed over but those who wanted a partition took to arms and were beaten. Then the federal units were cut by multiplication and subdivision to prevent a recurrence. Now a different set of disrupters – fundamentalist Moslems can still emerge from the social woodwork and whether they willl be beaten down or left to rot remains to be seen, but it is not a peaceful one state solution.

In Palestine as admitted in the last two chapters of Ed Horne’s, “A Job Well Done,” the British left the partitonees to take it or wreck it having tipped the wink to the Arabs that if they tried to ethnic cleanse the country of Zionist Jews for a one state Arab solution, HMG would turn a Nelsonian blind eye. However Israel was strong enough to get her one Jewish state solution.

Now if the Arabs wish to declare a one state solution they willl still have to make it stick by better services than Israel offfers – highly unlikely – or by force ie a re-run of 1948 in Dec to May first half of the War of Israeli Independence. This too is highly unlikely to succeed in the balance of power as currently visible.

A Third Intifada will be the excuse for the Israelis to mutter “Damn!” and inflict a more severe siege than in the Second Intifada by cuttinig all power water fuel and other transit into Judea and Samaria and expelling all illegal Arabs in Israel – which will make economic slots for the as yet unemployed Haredim even as in the Napoleonic War with the shipping business prosperously full on trooping and supply, it was possible to abolish the slave trade.